13 Montague Terrace
13 Montague Terrace, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002470015 · BIN 3002026
- Year built
- 1861
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 10
- Floors
- 4
- Landmark
- Designated
Montague Terrace is a single block with two sides that behave like two different addresses. The even-numbered houses on the west side back directly onto the Promenade, which is why they include the district's most expensive townhouses and its two best-known small cooperatives, at 2 Montague Terrace and 10 Montague Terrace. The odd-numbered houses on the east side — Nos. 1 through 13 — are a continuous brownstone terrace facing west across the street, the row that gives the street its name. 13 Montague Terrace closes it at the Remsen Street end.
Two things separate No. 13 from its six neighbors. The first is the corner. At 35 feet of frontage on a 103-foot lot it is nearly half again as wide as the 26-foot interior houses, it carries a second full elevation on Remsen Street, and it holds an address on that street as well: the LPC's district file lists the property as 13 Montague Terrace (aka 25 Remsen Street). Corner light on a south elevation is the practical consequence, and in a four-story brownstone it is worth more than any amenity the building could have.
The second is that the house appears to have kept its stoop. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission catalogued the row in 1965 it recorded stoop removals at Nos. 1, 3, 7 and 9, and a set of Tudor alterations grafted onto the basement and first story of No. 7. Against No. 13 it recorded nothing. In a district where the great majority of converted houses lost their stoops to the rooming-house era, an intact entrance sequence is both an architectural fact and, under the designation, a maintenance obligation.
The dating is unresolved and we present it that way. The LPC could not fix a year for any house in the row and gives a range of 1861 to 1879; the Department of Finance carries 1879 for all seven. The Commission's own style call — Anglo-Italianate, in brownstone — points toward the earlier end of that window, since the idiom was at its height in Brooklyn in the late 1850s and 1860s. What is certain is that the row went up as a unit, to one design, on land subdivided out of the Pierrepont holdings.
The cooperative chapter is short and quiet. The house passed out of a single owner's estate in May 1979, was held by a partnership through the early 1980s, and became a cooperative corporation by deed recorded June 11, 1984. Four decades on, the corporation carries almost no debt — a $300,000 mortgage recorded in June 2026 is the whole of the public financing picture — which is the single most useful thing a buyer can know about it.
Architecture and unit composition
A four-story brownstone of the Anglo-Italianate type: flat-fronted, cornice-lined, with the full-height parlor windows and shallow stoop that distinguish the idiom from the high-stooped Italianate brownstone of the 1870s. The corner position gives the building a Remsen Street flank, and the 35-foot frontage means the plan is wider than the row-house norm — the reason ten apartments here average roughly 870 square feet where ten apartments in a 25-foot Heights house average closer to 600.
That width is the composition story. Expect genuine one- and two-bedroom homes rather than the studio-and-junior stock that fills the district's narrower conversions, with the largest apartments most likely at the parlor and garden levels where the floor plate is least broken. Exposures run west to Montague Terrace, south to Remsen Street on the corner side, and east to the block's interior gardens. Western rooms look across the terrace at the low street wall of the Promenade-backing houses opposite; harbor sightlines vary by floor and by window, and should be verified from the specific apartment rather than assumed from the address.
The house carries two regulated elevations rather than one — brownstone face, cornice, window openings, stoop and ironwork on Montague Terrace, and the full Remsen Street flank besides. Brownstone is the most maintenance-hungry façade material in the district, and any repointing or replacement scheme runs through the Landmarks Preservation Commission before it runs through a contractor.
Building operations
Round Table Associates, Inc. has run the house since 1984 on the small-building model: no elevator on record, no staff on record, and no managing agent documented in current public records — the only HPD registration on file for the property lapsed in the 1990s, which usually indicates self-management by the board. Confirm all of it directly; a ten-shareholder corporation can change its arrangements without leaving a public trace.
The financial posture is the standout. Across four decades the corporation's recorded borrowing has run in the tens and low hundreds of thousands: $45,000 in 1982, roughly $120,000 in 1992, small consolidations through a $300,000 stated amount in 2016, and a $300,000 mortgage in favor of Emigrant Funding Corporation recorded June 12, 2026. For ten apartments that is a per-share debt load far below the district's norm. It also raises the reciprocal question: a corporation that has never leveraged itself may have funded capital work from assessments and reserves instead, so the assessment history and reserve balance are the numbers to read next.
For a brownstone of this age the capital list is predictable and expensive: façade and cornice work under FISP/LL11 with Landmarks review attached, the stoop and areaway, roof and flashing, party walls with No. 11, and the age of the risers and heating plant. On a corner building there is simply more façade to maintain than the neighbors carry.
Recent sales
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent transfers at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 2025 | 5 | $2,100,000 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | 2 | $751,544 |
| Sep 5, 2023 | 2 | $580,000 |
| Apr 28, 2021 | 5 | $1,050,000 |
| Jun 8, 2017 | 4 | $1,975,000 |
| Jan 25, 2017 | 3 | $1,700,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-00247-0015) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price.
What to know if you’re buying
Verify the capital record, not just the debt. Almost no underlying mortgage is a genuine advantage; it also means capital work has likely been assessment-funded. Ask for the assessment history and the most recent engineer's report.
Confirm what you can see from the apartment. Western exposure across a one-block terrace is not the same as a Promenade view. Stand in the rooms at the hour you would use them.
The corner is the value. South light on Remsen Street and a 35-foot-wide plan are why this house's apartments are larger than its neighbors'. Make sure the specific unit actually gets both.
Assume a walk-up and confirm. No elevator is recorded for this row.
Get current policy in writing. No offering plan for this building sits in our library, and no current managing agent is documented. Pets, sublets, financing minimums and any flip tax come from the board directly.
What to know if you’re selling
Name the row and name the corner. An Anglo-Italianate brownstone terrace of seven houses, catalogued as a unit by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, with this house closing it at Remsen Street and carrying a second address on that street. That is a listing headline no other apartment on the block can write.
Say what the LPC did not record. The Commission noted stoop removals at four of the seven houses and none at No. 13. Presented accurately, an intact entrance is a real differentiator.
Lead with the balance sheet. A ten-apartment corporation carrying roughly $300,000 of underlying debt is a strong story for buyers and for their lenders. Put the number in the deal room early.
Price against the harbor edge, not the corridor. The comparable set is the district's Promenade-adjacent boutique cooperatives, not the staffed elevator buildings on Montague and Remsen Streets.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 13 Montague Terrace, also evaluate:
- 10 Montague Terrace — the converted Sanger mansion at the Remsen end of the west side; the closest possible location comparable, directly across the street
- 2 Montague Terrace — the 1927 full-service cooperative at the head of the same block; the service-model opposite
- 39 Remsen Street — cooperative on the same tax block, around the Remsen Street corner
- 62 Montague Street — Montrose W. Morris's 1888 apartment house at the block's Montague Terrace corner
- 66 Montague Street — moderate-scale cooperative on the same block, near the Heights Casino
- 1 Pierrepont Street — prewar cooperative at the harbor end of Pierrepont; the tall-building alternative on the same edge
- 129 Columbia Heights — Beaux-Arts cooperative on the bluff with a comparable exposure argument
- 2 Grace Court — elevator cooperative on the district's quiet southwest cul-de-sac
- 100 Remsen Street — full-service prewar cooperative three blocks east on Remsen; the maintenance contrast
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